Has impact investing worked? 'Yes and no,' says outgoing GIIN chief Amit Bouri
28 Aug 2026
12:45
Amit Bouri, co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), announced in July that he will leave the organisation at the end of the year.
In his first major interview since breaking the news, Bouri reflects on what the field has achieved, what it hasn't, why he is leaving now, and what he’ll do next.
"I want to make sure impact investing rises to this moment, and to what the world's asking of this community," he tells Impact Loop.
In his first major interview since breaking the news, Bouri reflects on what the field has achieved, what it hasn't, why he is leaving now, and what he’ll do next.
"I want to make sure impact investing rises to this moment, and to what the world's asking of this community," he tells Impact Loop.
When Amit Bouri wrote the business plan for the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) in 2009, the world was in the grip of a financial crisis. "Impact investing" was a term so untested that his team nearly left it out of the organisation's name.
The network launched that September anyway, unveiled by Bill Clinton on the main stage of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, with backing from the Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan and USAID. Bouri has previously recalled Clinton going off script to say nobody was sure the idea would work, but if it did, it could really change the world.